[Mark44]

After digging into the driver's side door three times, my window now works as it should. Thank you to Paul C Roddy and Van B. and JFP in PA for their suggestions.
To be honest only two of the three expeditions into the door were to fix the problem with the window not clearing the door gasket: the first foray was to replace a broken spring between the inside door handle and the latch mechanism.
Replacing the wire that has a microswitch at the end did not solve the problem, but replacing the door lock mechanism finally did the trick. The most difficult part of this process is connecting the link from the outer door handle to the L-shaped plastic part on the lock mechanism. It's way back in there, in a very confined space. I had to get both arms in there to join these pieces, and it took me at least an hour to do.